I have noticed that when I try to organize my image collection, and place images in different albums, they do not move out of my Camera Roll, but they are copied to the album selected. I want to move these photos, not copy them, how is this done?
Thanks
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.2.1
I totally understand what you are saying. It's so frustrating! I recently switched to iPhone from Samsung. With the Samsung phone, you could do exactly what you are asking. Move photos from your camera roll, into an album, and the photos would remove themselves from the camera roll. I miss that!!!
Hi, I know this is an old thread but while I was searching for a solution to the same problem I stumbled upon it. What I ended up doing was creating a private flckr account...the app makes it very easy to upload photos and create new albums. It’s not a GREAT solution, but allows me to keep photos I use for work in an easily accessible place that IS NOT my camera roll.
They can not be moved out of the camera roll. When you create albums on an iOS device, you are not storing copies of the photos in the albums, but merely pointers or shortcuts to those photos from the camera roll. If you delete them from the camera roll, they will be deleted in your albums as well.
I thought about that, but the folders you sync are not editable. This means you cannont add or remove any photo to these synced folders. And so my phone becomes a mess. Because I will have double folders for everything. For example: I want to put all 2016 photos in a folder. But 2016 isnt over yet. I import, organize, and sync. Perfect my phone is organized. I then start taking new photos. To add this pictures to the folder I need to rescyn, every time I take a new photo?!
Or for screenshots. IOS automatically generates an album for screenshots. So I import the screenshots and put them in a folder named "Synced Screenshots". Now I take a new screenshot. IOS will create a new album named "screenshots"
How can I avoid this?
I disagree. Phones, Tablets, and every sort of mobile device work everyday more as desktop pcs. In fact these are getting extinct. Photos should not be more easily managed on the PC than on the phone. What if Steve Jobs would have thought so? The ipod could have never been created. Now its equally easy to mange music in the phone or in the PC. Sure. you can do much more in the PC, but the core features are in both platforms.
In fact most apps are developed trying to make phones work more and more as PCs.
Organizing photos is not a complex task, and there is not need for a "full blown computer".
Is there any app that can allow this?
You're welcome.
Submit your feedback to Apple here:
You may think computers, be they desktop or notebook, are becoming extinct. However, it's pretty clear that Apple doesn't agree.
I reported your post to the moderators earlier today because it violated the Terms of Use. Your post was offensive to another user who was just trying to help you. The moderators agreed and your post went poof just like the thread you started on this same topic yesterday which is now gone. Read the ToU again. Also note that if you continue to do this the moderators may revoke your posting privileges. Apple Support Communities Use Agreement
abdulr264 wrote:
If Apple cannot provide different albums for pics from different apps, then atleast Apple should create a album where only camera pics gets stored. Camera roll album can still have all the mixture of pics from all the apps(including camera)
This feature should not be difficult. Even Basic phones have this.
Feel free to let Apple know what you would like to see:
It's my device, those are my photos!
It's not "theyPhone" it's "iPhone"
Not at all. iOS is not "supposed" to do anything specific at all. iOS does what its developer programs it to do.
if you wish to have that level of control, become a developer and create an app that suits your needs.
To all those who come here to read this conversation:
iOS is *NOT* open source and fully configurable by any and all.
If you feel there are gaps or shortcomings in iOS and its apps, tell Apple via the only they want feedback.
Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/
This community is not that place.
Amsena wrote:
Or for screenshots. IOS automatically generates an album for screenshots. So I import the screenshots and put them in a folder named "Synced Screenshots". Now I take a new screenshot. IOS will create a new album named "screenshots"
How can I avoid this?
You can't.
I realize that I take a very different approach to these types of situations than many others take, and I realize that the organizational functions on an iPhone are not ideal for many, but, this is still a phone that we are talking about, not a full blown computer. The features are what they are.
Amsena wrote:
Quick google search has given me some results, Uitful is an app that claims to do this.
Don't bet on it. https://www.quora.com/Now-that-the-iOS-Utiful-app-enabled-MOVING-photos-from-the -iPhone-Camera-Roll-into-folders-will-Ap…
Amsena wrote:
As I said repeatedly, if you imagine your Camera Roll as a mail Inbox, anyone, designer or not, would think that its ridiculous to no be able to move message out of the inbox folder and organized them in different folders.
I certainly do not think of my Camera Roll as an inbox. And, even if someone did, it doesn't follow that someone would agree with you. I know lots of people who are not fans of the whole "zero inbox" concept.
Amsena wrote:
As I said repeatedly, if you imagine your Camera Roll as a mail Inbox, anyone, designer or not, would think that its ridiculous to no be able to move message out of the inbox folder and organized them in different folders.
You can imagine anything you want, but the Camera Roll is not analogous to a mail Inbox. Since the analogy is flawed, any conclusions you draw from it are meaningless.
The Camera Roll is the ONLY content on an iPhone that is accessible from a computer. That's a security imperative. If you connect the phone to your computer the Camera Roll (and nothing else) will appear in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. That's implemented that way so you can copy your content out of the Camera Roll to your computer, then organize it any way you want. And then put the organized content back onto the phone if you want to.
The latest iOS doesn't even have a camera roll. It has a global image store, and it has albums. You can add albums. You can move images between albums. You can duplicate images in multiple albums. What had been the camera roll is just storage for all of the photos on your phone (except albums synced from your computer). When a photo appears in an album (and it can appear in more than one) all the album contains is a pointer to the photo in the global photo store. The photos are not duplicated.
Why isn't it analogous? Its totally the same. Files to organize. Mail to organize. Pictures to organize.
I am aware that photos are not duplicated.
If everything is thought so that you organize it in your PC, why are there albums in the first place?
Amsena wrote:
Why isn't it analogous? Its totally the same. Files to organize. Mail to organize. Pictures to organize.
Again, even if the analogy were apt (and I don't think it is), you are assuming that "in box" means the same thing to everyone, that everyone treats it as "mail to organize". Seriously, some people leave it in their in box forever. Gmail was set up on that premise, in fact. You labeled email so that you could view it in different ways but it was all in one box. I still, for the most part, use Gmail that way. My mail is in All Mail. I tag it. Or, I search for it. I don't waste time moving it about. Not a strategy with which everyone would be happy. But, the point is, there is more than one way to look at things, including handling photos.
How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll?
